Re: TransWarpGS Clone Preorders open!

[Conrad <conrad.russo@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

Thanks for all the support first of all from everyone who has preordered. Thank you John for posting your thoughts, I didn't know you frequented this group. I feel bad that I didn't get to see you before you left Vancouver but I will be coming your way soon so hopefully I can stop by and say Hi. Thank you Clay so much for your kindness and generosity. 

The products are currently on their way to me as we speak, with an estimated delivery time of 3 weeks. China Post is slow as hell but take excellent care of packages so I prefer them for important deliveries. My friends agreed to release the hardware before payment but are holding on to the GERBER file and schematics until payment is received, so I can have cards to show if they arrive before I can pay or schematics and GERBER files to show if I can pay before they arrive. Either way the wait is almost over.

To answer everyone, I TOTALLY understand the scepticism, like I said before. Like I also said I know it wasn't an intentional personal attack against me, I just said it could be interpreted as such. If people had asked for photos or video of the card in the last thread when I announced it I would have asked them to make some, but like I said first of all I didn't want to inconvenience my friends who were doing me a huge favour with this work, and second of all I tried to make this as fast-track as possible, because I know how interest wanes when development drags on. I guess I just felt a little underappreciated.

I am surprised how fast this first batch is going actually, I expected 50 to last a bit longer than it seems it will now. I will close preorders early if all of the cards become spoken for. If there are not enough to go around in the first batch don't dispair to anyone who doesn't get one, plans are in progress to produce a second batch as soon as the first is paid for. I am looking at a run of 100 for the second batch.

To answer your questions the fix has been incorporated into the board and the trace cuts have also been implemented as jumpers in case they are required, at least from everything they have told me. I don't know why I didn't think of that for differences that make this card distinguishable from the original.